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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Jesus - The Subject of Prophecy | March 31, 2025
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- [announcer] from the pulpit
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- Of the first baptist church of dallas, texas,
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- This is, "pathway to victory," with dr. robert jeffress.
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- Hi, i am robert jeffress.
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- And welcome again to, "pathway to victory."
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- When most people think about jesus,
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- They picture him as he appeared in his first coming.
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- A gentle teacher, a compassionate healer,
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- And a loving savior.
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- But the bible tells us there's much more to the story.
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- Today we're beginning a fascinating new study
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- On the end times that reveals
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- The complete picture of jesus christ
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- And his triumphant return in the last days.
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- My message is titled, jesus: the subject of prophecy
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- On today's edition of, "pathway to victory."
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- ♪ all the colors of the rainbow ♪
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- ♪ all the voices of the wind ♪
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- ♪ every dream that reaches out ♪
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- ♪ that reaches out to find where love begins ♪
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- ♪ every word of every story ♪
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- ♪ every star in every sky ♪
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- -♪ every corner of creation ♪ -♪ ooh-ooh-ooh ♪
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- ♪ lives to testify ♪
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- ♪ for as long as i shall live, i will testify to love ♪
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- ♪ i'll be your witness in the silences ♪
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- ♪ when words are not enough ♪
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- ♪ with every breath i take, i will give thanks to god above ♪
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- ♪ for as long as i shall live, i will testify to love ♪
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- ♪ from the mountains to the valleys, yes ♪
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- ♪ from the rivers to the sea, oh-oh ♪
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- ♪ oh, every hand that reaches out ♪
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- ♪ every hand that reaches out to offer peace ♪
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- ♪ every simple act of mercy ♪
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- ♪ and every step to kingdom come ♪
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- ♪ all the hope in every heart will ♪
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- ♪ speak what love has done ♪
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- ♪ for as long as i shall live, i will testify to love ♪
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- ♪ i'll be your witness in the silences ♪
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- ♪ when words are not enough ♪
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- ♪ every breath ♪
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- ♪ with every breath i take, i will give thanks to god above ♪
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- ♪ for as long as i shall live, i will testify to love ♪
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- ♪ oh-oh-oh ♪
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- ♪ testify, testify ♪
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- ♪ testify, testify ♪
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- ♪ i just can't help but testify ♪
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- ♪ word of every story ♪
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- -♪ star in every sky ♪ -♪ testify, testify ♪
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- ♪ corner of creation testify ♪
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- ♪ for as long as i shall live, i will testify ♪
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- ♪ i will testify for as long as i shall live ♪
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- ♪ with every breath i take, i will give thanks to god above ♪
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- ♪ i will testify ♪
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- -♪ testify ♪ -♪ for as long as i shall live ♪
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- ♪ i will testify ♪
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- ♪ for as long as i shall live, i will testify to love ♪
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- ♪ i'll be your witness in the silences ♪
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- ♪ when words are not enough ♪
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- ♪ with every breath i take, i will give thanks to god above ♪
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- ♪ for as long as i shall live, i will testify to love ♪
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- ♪ for as long as i shall live, i will testify, testify ♪
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- ♪ yeah ♪
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- (congregation cheering and applauding)
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- [announcer] jesus is the most talked about person
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- In human history, but we can't fully grasp who jesus is
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- Until we understand both his first and his second coming.
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- In his powerful new book, "jesus revealed in the end times,"
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- Dr. robert jeffress unveils the glorious
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- Return of our savior.
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- Learn what his triumphant return means for your life today.
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- Request your copy of, "jesus revealed in the end times,"
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- When you give a generous gift
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- To support the ministry of, "pathway to victory."
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- ♪ music ♪
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- What comes to your mind when you hear
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- The name, jesus christ?
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- For millions of americans,
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- They think of the face of jonathan roumie.
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- Now, let's be clear.
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- Jonathan roumie did not come from heaven to earth.
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- He came from hell to earth.
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- Well, to be more specific, hell's kitchen, new york
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- Where he was born in 1974.
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- As a young man, he wanted nothing more
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- Than to be a well-known actor.
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- As a young adult, he went to hollywood,
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- Had little success there.
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- When he was down to his last $20, he knelt down
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- And prayed that god would miraculously
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- Intervene in his life.
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- Two months later, he was selected to play
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- The lead character, jesus christ
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- In the hit series, "the chosen."
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- People think about jonathan roumie
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- When they think about jesus.
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- Roumie said about his character,
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- "jesus is the only character who i would hope
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- To stay in character as all the time."
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- He said he has some challenges though playing jesus.
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- He said, "people come up to meet him
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- And are expecting a spiritual encounter."
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- He said, "that can be hard to live up to.
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- I am not jesus."
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- Jesus is the most portrayed person in human history.
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- There is absolutely no way to calculate all the books
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- That have been written about him,
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- The paintings that have tried to depict him,
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- The actors who have portrayed him,
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- And yet what all of these depictions
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- About jesus have in common is they all seem
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- To center on the first coming of jesus,
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- Jesus as he appeared when he was here on earth.
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- But what about now?
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- What does jesus look like as he sits
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- At the right hand of god the father?
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- What will jesus be like in the end times?
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- The fact is you can't understand the totality
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- Of who jesus is until you understand
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- Both his first and his second comings.
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- And when you understand who jesus
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- Will be when he comes in the end, that is the answer
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- To the most basic questions we have in life.
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- Questions like, what is my purpose,
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- How can i have a relationship with god,
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- And what does the future hold for me?
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- It's that last question that is perhaps the most relevant
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- To people here and are watching this broadcast,
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- What is the future for me?
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- The world begins and ends with jesus christ
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- And so do you and i.
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- And that leads to the first truth i want us
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- To understand as we begin this series,
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- Jesus revealed in the end times, the first truth is this,
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- The focus of prophecy is a person rather than an event.
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- The focus of prophecy is a person rather than event.
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- You know, that can bring relief to us
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- When we understand who jesus really is.
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- Remember in his first coming,
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- The majority of people rejected him
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- Because he didn't meet their expectations
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- Of what they were looking for in a messiah,
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- And so the average israelite
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- Was confused about who jesus was.
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- The religious leaders took advantage of that.
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- They rejected jesus and said,
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- "if you really want to know god, keep our laws,
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- Keep our endless list of rules and regulations."
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- And to those people, listen to what jesus said,
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- Familiar words from matthew 11:28 to 30,
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- "come to me all who are weary and heavy laden
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- And i will give you rest.
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- Take my yoke upon you and learn from me
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- For i am gentle and humble and heart
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- And you will find rest for your souls.
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- For my yoke is easy and my burden is light."
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- He said, if you want rest, if you are weary,
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- You're crushed down with burdens, come to me.
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- Understand who i am.
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- There is rest in knowing who jesus is.
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- And that leads to a second truth, the purpose of prophecy.
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- What is the purpose?
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- Why does god spend so much time talking about prophecy?
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- You know, i think about 1 thessalonians 4:13,
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- Paul is introducing the subject of the rapture
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- And he said to the thessalonians, "for we do not want you
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- To be ignorant, unaware about those who sleep in christ,
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- Those who have died before the rapture of the return."
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- There's no premium on being ignorant about the end times.
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- You know, there's some people who say,
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- Well, i don't bother about the end times,
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- I just leave all that to god.
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- You know, i'm not pre-millennial or post-millennial,
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- I'm just pan millennial.
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- I believe it will all pan out in the end.
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- (congregation laughing)
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- Well, that's real cute, but it's really ignorant
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- And there's no premium on ignorance in the bible.
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- God does want us to understand the end times.
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- That's why give so much space to it.
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- But it's more than something to fill our heads.
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- It needs to fill our heart.
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- Understanding the end times ought to change the way we live
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- And that leads to the purpose of bible prophecy.
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- There are two things that should fill our hearts
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- Because of our understanding of jesus in the end times.
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- First of all, our hearts ought to be overflowing with hope.
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- God gave us this truth to give us hope.
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- Somebody has said, man can go 40 days without food,
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- He can go eight days without water,
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- He can go four minutes without oxygen,
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- But it will only last a few seconds without hope.
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- We all need hope.
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- And hope is in short supply these days.
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- We need hope.
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- Hope, what is it?
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- It's a desire for something we don't already have.
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- In romans 8:24 and 25, paul writes,
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- "who hopes for what he already has?
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- But if we hope for what we do not have,
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- We wait for it patiently."
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- God wants to fill us with hope.
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- And we don't find hope just in events,
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- But in the person who controlled those events, jesus christ.
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- Secondly, a study of prophecy in jesus in the end times
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- Should fill our hearts with a desire for holiness.
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- Holiness.
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- The fact that jesus is coming back again
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- Ought to fill us with a desire to obey god, to please god,
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- To follow him in every part of our life.
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- Quick 60 second review.
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- Remember the bible uses two phrases
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- To describe the end of time.
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- There is the phrase, the last days, the last days.
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- The bible talks about the last days.
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- And technically the last days are that time
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- Between christ's first coming and his second coming.
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- Ever since jesus ascended
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- Back into heaven more than 2000 years ago,
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- We have been living in the last days
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- Anticipating his second coming.
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- The bible uses that term in several places.
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- Acts 2:17, on the day of pentecost,
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- When the followers of jesus had been baptized
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- With the holy spirit, remember peter preached
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- To the crowd on the southern steps of jerusalem
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- And said, "this is an anticipation.
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- This is a fulfillment of what the bible says."
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- And he quotes an old testament verse that says,
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- "and it shall be in the last days
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- That i will pour out my spirit on all mankind."
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- The second phrase, the end times,
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- That's the other phrase used to describe
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- The last period on earth, the end times.
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- You find it in matthew 24 verse three.
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- Remember, jesus was on the mount of olives
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- With his disciples, and as he was sitting there,
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- The disciples came to him saying,
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- "lord, tell us when will these things happen
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- And what will be the sign of your coming
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- And of the end of the age?"
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- Jesus skipped over answering the when.
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- He would say later in matthew 24:36,
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- "it's not for you to know the time or the epics,
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- You're not in that business,"
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- But he did say, "you need to understand the events,
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- And jesus began his description of the end times
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- Starting with the tribulation
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- And going through the second coming
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- And ending with the millennial kingdom,
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- The establishment of christ's kingdom on earth.
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- So let's look at some of the roles
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- That we're going to examine and study in depth
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- That the end times reveal about jesus.
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- First of all, jesus as messiah.
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- In the end times, we see jesus as messiah.
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- Now, we refer to jesus as jesus christ.
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- It's funny how many people think jesus
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- Is his first name in christ is his last name.
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- No, that's not it.
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- Christ.
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- Christos means messiah, the anointed one.
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- And jesus, when he came the first time,
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- He was the long awaited messiah.
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- He was born in human form.
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- He grew up.
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- He taught many things.
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- He was followed by some, rejected by most.
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- He was betrayed, crucified, risen from the dead
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- And he ascended back into heaven.
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- That was all in his first coming.
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- When jesus came the first time, most people rejected him,
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- But when he comes the second time, all will follow him.
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- We're living in that time between
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- The first and the second coming of christ.
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- It's a period of time that paul referred to in romans 11:25,
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- He said, "for i do not want you,"
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- And he was talking to jews here,
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- "i don't want you to be uninformed of this mystery
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- So that you will not be wise in your own estimation
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- That a partial hardening has come to israel
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- Until the fullness of the gentiles has come in."
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- Because israel rejected christ at his first coming,
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- God temporarily put israel on the shelf.
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- They are still his chosen people.
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- Will god desert his people?
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- Never.
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- As we watch the unfolding chaos in the middle east,
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- We need to remember that to be on israel's side
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- Is to be on the right side of history
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- And the right side of god.
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- Nevertheless, god has temporarily set aside israel
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- And opened this time for gentiles
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- To participate in the abrahamic covenant
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- In a different way, but to participate in it.
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- We call this age, the age of the church.
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- The age of the church will end with the rapture
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- Of the church and the final seven years
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- Of god's dealing with israel will commence,
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- And they will eventually see jesus as the messiah.
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- Secondly, we'll look at jesus as prophet.
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- Jesus also made many prophecies about the future.
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- Some of them have been fulfilled,
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- Some are yet to be fulfilled.
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- But because of all of the amazing things
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- That have already come true that jesus prophesied,
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- We can have confidence that those things
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- That haven't come true will will come true.
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- That's what we're going to look at in this message about
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- What has come true that jesus prophesied,
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- What is yet to be fulfilled.
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- Thirdly, we're going to look at jesus as a lamb.
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- It's a constant image in both the old and new testaments.
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- Remember in the old testament, under the sacrificial system,
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- Lambs were stand in sacrifices.
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- There was nothing about the blood of a lamb
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- That could wash away sins,
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- But it all pointed to the true lamb of god,
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- Jesus christ who would come.
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- Remember in john 1:29, when john the baptizer saw jesus
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- For the first time, he said, "behold the lamb of god
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- Who takes away the sins of the earth."
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- It took a perfect lamb, jesus himself,
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- To take away our sins.
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- Interestingly, another john,
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- John the apostle also uses the image of a lamb
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- In the last book of the bible, the book of revelation.
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- Fourth, we'll look at jesus as conqueror.
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- You know the reason so many people miss jesus
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- At his first coming is he didn't check all the boxes.
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- They wanted a conquering messiah who would overthrow,
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- Whom they thought was their greatest enemy, rome.
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- And when he didn't overthrow the roman empire,
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- They were disappointed and rejected him.
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- What they missed was when jesus came the first time,
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- He conquered our greatest enemies,
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- Sin and death by his death on the cross
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- And his resurrection from the dead.
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- But jesus still has some unfinished
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- Business on planet earth.
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- When he comes again as conqueror, he will come as the one
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- Who conquers satan and his demons
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- And his evil and his demonic forces.
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- All the enemies we have will be conquered.
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- We have a hard time believing that
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- Because we don't feel like we're conquering right now.
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- We feel like in the battle between good and evil,
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- Between satan and god, it looks as if satan is winning,
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- But jesus looks at it and in his mind,
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- In god's mind, he's already won.
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- Satan has already been defeated.
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- Again, we live in time and space,
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- But god sees past things as already completed.
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- He sees future things as already completed.
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- He sees the past, the present, and the future, all the same.
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- A great illustration of that is in revelation 11:5.
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- Remember the seventh angel sounded
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- And he shouted from heaven, "the kingdom of this world
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- Has become the kingdom of our god and of his christ.
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- We have the victory.
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- It's already been accomplished through jesus christ."
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- We'll look at jesus as conqueror.
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- And that leads to his other role
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- To talk about and that is jesus as king.
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- After the battle of armageddon, jesus will come to earth
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- To set up that literal kingdom on earth
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- With its seat in jerusalem and god will fulfill
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- All of his promises to believing israel
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- And to the church as well.
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- Interestingly, during that perfect time,
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- When satan is bound for a thousand years,
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- People are enjoying the just and perfect reign of jesus.
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- Not everybody born during that time
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- Will pledge allegiance to king jesus.
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- Some will actually choose to rebel against jesus
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- And that will mean the end of the world
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- Because it will be too late.
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- And that leads to the role of jesus as judge.
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- Jesus as judge.
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- We don't like to think of jesus
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- As a judge in our culture today.
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- Do you know the most popular verse
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- On the internet right now?
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- It's not john 3:16.
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- That used to be the most popular verse of the bible.
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- Now it's matthew 7:1, "judge not, lest you be judged."
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- Unbelievers and misguided christians love to use that verse
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- As a way to justify any evil they want to commit.
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- No, god does judge us.
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- Jesus is coming as a judge in 1 or 2 timothy 4,
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- A chapter i read every saturday night
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- To get ready to preach on sunday.
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- Paul tells timothy to preach the word
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- In season and out of season
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- Because jesus is coming to judge the living and the dead.
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- And that leads to jesus as lord.
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- Jesus as lord.
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- After the last echo of the gavel has sounded
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- And everyone has received their rewards or just punishment,
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- Jesus will reign over a new heaven and a new earth.
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- "i saw a new heaven and a new earth," john said,
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- "for the first heaven and earth will have passed away
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- And god will wipe away every tear from their eyes
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- And there shall no longer be any death or mourning or crying
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- Or pain for the first things will have passed away."
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- There's one other role that frankly
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- I've never seen anybody cover before,
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- But i think we need to talk about,
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- And that is jesus as a friend, jesus as our friend.
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- Do you remember back in 2008, it seems so long ago
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- When sarah palin, the governor of alaska,
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- Was running for vice president and, "saturday night live"
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- Loved to do these parodies of her
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- And in one skit they had tina faye
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- Who was playing sarah palin saying supposedly,
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- "i can see russia from my house."
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- And she didn't actually say that in real life,
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- But it was close enough.
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- I can see russia from my house
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- And everybody laughed about that.
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- And the fact is you could not see russia from alaska
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- Without some very powerful binoculars.
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- You know, god has given us a powerful set
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- Of spiritual binoculars.
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- It's called the bible.
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- Think of all you can see through the bible,
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- You can look through your spiritual binoculars
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- And you can see the future.
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- You can see the rapture, the second coming, the millennium,
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- The new heaven, the new earth.
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- And in those binoculars, you can't tell
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- How far they may be away or how close they may be,
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- But you can see all of those events,
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- But looming over those events in the forefront
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- Is the person of jesus christ, the one who says,
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- I'm the alpha and the omega,
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- I'm the beginning and the end,
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- I'm the one who holds your past,
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- Your present and your future in my hands.
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- And that realization that the jesus
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- Who knows the future has planned the future.
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- That realization of who jesus is ought to fill our hearts
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- With unending hope and an unending desire for holiness
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- As we prepare to enter into the end times.
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- The bible's teaching about christ return should fill us
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- With hope and anticipation, not fear.
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- And i pray today's message has encouraged you to live
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- With your eyes focused on jesus,
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- The one who holds our future.
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- Now, before we wrap up today's program,
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- I want to share a touching note i receive from shannon.
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- Shannon writes,
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- Well, thank you, shannon,
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- He's coming back again one day.
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- And that's why quite frankly, you could have an image
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- Of jesus wearing a crown that would've just
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